Did You Know

Shaikh Jamaluddin of Hansi, a senior disciple-of Baba Farid remarks-
"Oh Ahmad! The (mystic) objective cannot be achieved through performance of extraordinary number of prayers and fasts, but by fulfilling the needs of the people."

Did You Know

Hazrat Nizamuddin Aulia's Khanqah attracted greater number of people as compared to the count of the then Sultans. The Sultans always wondered what lured the common man to the Khanqah. Alauddin Khilji had sent spies to his Khanqah with a view to knowing and if necessary checking such influx of people. The people still kept coming in large numbers.

Persian Kalam

ahad raa suurat-e-maqsuud ahmad buud ahmad buud
na-buud az haq nishaa.n var buud ahmad buud ahmad buud

Azeez Safipuri

Holi

horii hoy rahii ahmad jiyo ke dvaar
nabii alii ko ra.ng bano hai hasan husain khilaar

Shah Niyaz Ahmad Barelwi

Persian Kalam

jalva-e-nuure numuud-o-nuur-e-ahmad naam saaKHt
bas buvad ahmad ahad az ruu-e-ii.n guftaar-e-maa

Shah Niyaz Ahmad Barelwi

Qita

gah chuu ahmad dar shab-e-me.araaj-e-vasl
az haram taa saub-e-aqsaa mii-ravam

Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti

Malfooz

Since the Amir’s name is Mu’in al-Din, he is not ‘Ain al-Din (“Essence of the Faith”)

Maulana Rumi

Persian Kalam

sultaan-e-saraacha-e-huzuurem
bar markab-e-ishq shah-savaarem

Khwaja Ahmad Jaam

Ghazal

mubaarak ho aziiz ahmad ko ye baaG
phale.n phuule.n 'riyaaz' us ke sab ashjaar

Riyaz Khairabadi

Did You Know

Shah Hussain has been the source of all the Punjabi Vedantic Sufi Poets, prominent or ordinary, who wrote often him notable Shah Sharaf, Sultan Bahu. Bulleh Shah, Shah Murad. His poetry proved a storehouse of poetic Symbols and literary expressions of mystical experiences which others borrowed from it so much so his style has also been followed.

Persian Sufi Poetry

KHwaja-e-KHwajgan muinuddin

KHvaaja-e-KHvaajgaa.n mu.inuddiin
faKHr-e-kaun-o-makaa.n mu.inuddiin

Shah Niyaz Ahmad Barelwi

Manqabat-Na.at

zabaa.n vo paak hai jis ne pa.Dhaa kalma mohammad kaa
vo dil raushan hai jis me.n jalva ho anvaar ahmad kaa

Shah Akbar Danapuri

Gujari Sufi Kavya

lokan dhan shah ek wajud hain

lokaa.n dhan shah ek vajuud hai.n
phokaT mu.nh ham ko.ii na bolo

Shah Ali Jeev Gamdhani

Ghazal

nuurun-min-nuurillaah se ahad ahmad kaa ruup dikhaavat hai
kahuu.n miim kii chaadar o.Dhat hai kahuu.n aap me.n aap samaavat hai

Mohammad Akbar Warsi

Gujari Sufi Kavya

unhon ki sej shah bas bas

unho.n kii sej 'shah' bas bas
hasaave piuu un has has

Shah Ali Jeev Gamdhani

Basant

KHvaaja mu.iinuddiin ke ghar aaj Dhaatii hai basant
kyaa ban banaa aur sub.h sajaa mujre ko aatii hai basant

Shah Niyaz Ahmad Barelwi

Persian Kalam

guft ahmad-e-KHasta-dil barii.n vazn
man dosh ba-kaam-e-dil rasiidam

Ahmad Hansawi

Basant

KHvaaja mu.inuddiin ke ghar aaj dhaatii hai basant
kyaa ban banaa aur saj sajaa mujre ko aatii hai basant

Shah Niyaz Ahmad Barelwi

Maktub

Count Galaraza (A spanish Student of Waris Pak) and his letter

Two or three months later, I had a dream, or more precisely an inward vision. I

Galaraza, Viscount of Santa Clara

Persian Kalam

'Ahmad' ze jamaal-e-aa.n parii-ruu
diivaana shudem be-KHud-o-zaar

Ahmad Shahjahanpuri